A Working Historical Chronology for MLP: FIM (General, Combined, Feb 2015 Revision) · 4:11am Feb 6th, 2015
Introduction
Yet another revamp of my Working Chronology. The Working Chronology is subject to change as new ideas occur to me, new fanons get folded in, and the canon itself changes in ways which require placement in time of newly-mentioned events. The February 2015 revision folds in the information from "Ages of Pony Earth" so that it's all available in one single file. I have greatly extended the details of the Voormis, G'marr, and Eldren races, and of the evolution of Ponykind.
Chronological Systems
Numerous year-reckonings are used here, so I provide this explanation to avoid confusion.
For periods of such remote prehistory that any zero year in Equestrian history doesn't matter much, I use "MYA" for "Million Years Ago" and "KYO" for "Thousand (Kilo) Years Ago." I also sometimes reference "BP" for "Before Present," with the "Present" being Y.O.H. 1500, the year of Luna's Return, for reference purposes.
Y.O.M. is "Year of Megan," the years since The Advent of The Megan. B.T.H. is "Before the Harmony, dating from the Defeat of Discord. Y.O.H. is "Year of Harmony," dating from the defeat of Discord. There are numerous other chronologies in use, the most common being to date from the Banishment of Luna. Y.O.H. has the distinct advantage of being the most acceptable to the Two Royal Pony Sisters, who would rather date events from their signal mutual triumph than from the other obvious reference point -- The Banishment of Luna, which the most emotionally painful event of both their lives in their current incarnations. The Return of Luna occurs in BoL 1000, or YOH 1500.
Basically, The Megan arrived 2024 years before the Cataclysm, so the Cataclysm occurs in the Y.O.M. 2024. After the Cataclysm, Ponies slowly abandoned the Megan year-count, because they felt that the Universe had betrayed and abandoned them. The Meganist system was continued by some Pony groups, especially the group of scholars and scientists who would found the Crystal City.
Another important system was started by the citizens of the Crystal City. This was A.U.C. (Anno Urbis Conditae or "The Year of the Founded City"), which dated from the foundation of Lake Town in 447 After The Cataclysm (2029 Before The Harmony). The A.U.C. dating system was most prominently used by the Crystal Empire, where it gradually took over from the old Year of Megan and the newer After The Cataclysm system. The main problem with it today is the 1014-year stasis between A.U.C. 2480 and A.U.C. 3494, during which the Crystal City was in a time-space limbo. In the A.U.C. system, the Return of Luna occurred in A.U.C. 3491.
The next most common system used in the period covered was "A.T.C." (After The Cataclysm) which was used mostly in the 1,438 years after the Cataclysm ended the Age of Wonders and before Discord's millennium of tyranny: the Cataclysm occurred in the year 2438 B.T.H. So the Return of Luna occurred in Y.O.M. 5962, for those few Ponies still dating from The Megan's Advent, or 3938 A.T.C.
For some 1000 years, starting in 1438 A.T.C (AUC 991). and ending in 2438 A.T.C. (AUC 1991), Discord was the lazy tyrant of Equestria and (on and off) most of the rest of the world. This was called the "Age of Discord," and many Ponies dated by Y.O.D. (Years Of Discord). This system was thankfully abandoned after the defeat of Discord by Celestia and Luna.
There were still other systems, such as the Years of the Lawstone (Lith) and Years of the Heartspire (the Heartspire), but they were abandoned with the fall of those cities. The Pegasi of Derecho dated their years by the Crystal-Imperial AUC system. Many more systems are practiced around the world, though Equestria's Years of Harmony are gradually becoming dominant.
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~ 66.043 MYA - The Draconid Killer smashes into the Earth, ending the reign of the great Archosaurs. The version of this event remembered by the Dragons is not that remembered by Luna, whose Cosmic Self witnessed this event. The Cenezoic Era, or "Age of Mammals," begins. During the Paleogene and Neogene epochs, the New Realms of the Serpent Folk (described by Robert E. Howard) are the dominant Powers on Earth.
55 MYA - Perissodactyla differentiate from the primitive Euungulata. From this Order derives all horses, rhinoceroses and tapirs. It is possible that a certain smiling schemer born to the Serpent Folk may have engineered their creation and dispersal across the Amareicas.
~ 2588 KYA - Fall of the Serpent Folk to a vicious civil war conducted with biological and other weapons of mass destruction, resulting in the race surviving only in isolated enclaves and often degenerate forms. The war causes the onset of the Pleistocene Glaciations. Various races succeed the Serpent Folk; in Hyperborea and North Amareica, their successors are the ursocanoid Voormis (see Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter) who develop a Neolithic civilization.
~ 1700 KYA - The Voormis of Hyperborea fission into two groups, one of which flees into North Amareica and becomes bestial, losing even agriculture; the other of which remains in Hyperborea, worships Zoth-Aqua and develops an advanced pre-industrial civilization.
~ 1550 KYA - Start of the Bremaretonian Interglacial Stage. The ice recedes, and Vormis civilization flourishes. The bestial Voormis of the hill forests and the civilized Voormis of the valleys and coast become truly distinct species, the beast-Voormis growing to giants of 6 to 9 feet tall, with huge feet; the civilized Voormis gradually dwindling in size until they average only 3-5 feet tall.
~ 1500 KYA - The Voormis of Hyperborea have attained the manufacture of good steel, the navigation of oceanic sailing ships, and the use of primitive firearms.
~ 1400 KYA - From among the Voormis of Hyperborea emerges the advanced and atheistic civilization of the G'marr (as we learn from Eissnos}, who develop steam engines, complex machinery, and sustained programs of selective breeding. They become known as the "Great G'marr." So rapidly that paleontology cannot date their progress, the Great G'marr attain prodigious skill with biomancy and technomancy, climbing to levels not attained by the Ponies even of the Age of Wonders. They sculpt servitor races from existing Earthlife, Uplifting the Proto-Eldren from ape stock and the Proto-Ponies from equid stock, among their many other achievements.
The Proto-Ponies are fully-sapient but have no special abilities, save an ability to love one another that is a foretaste of the Harmony. Some serve the Great G'marr; others love freedom more and become feral, roaming the primal plains of the Amareicas in herds, outcompeting the non-sapient native horses.
The Great G'marr become decadent and hedonistic. They modify both themselves and the Proto-Ponies, both to become physically-tougher and to naturally-manifest a very wide variety of coat colors. For half a hundred millennia they rule the northern Amareicas and part of Neighropa, but they are slowly and inexorably slipping into the Dreaming. The Proto-Ponies do not challenge them for dominion, but their Proto-Eldren servants increasingly regard their masters with covetous and envious eyes. As the Proto-Eldren gain greater and greater intelligence and will, they desire their own dominion.
~ 1350 KYA - Rebellion of the Proto-Eldren. The Great G'marr are forced to flee Hyperborea, sailing overseas to their colonies in Gumbria (North Amareica). The Proto-Eldren conquer but are unable to comprehend the technology of the Great G'marr. They found new civilizations, maintaining a High Medieval Technology, in what will be remembered to history as Hyperborea. Eventually, some of the Proto-Eldren are reconciled with the Great G'marr, and learn some of their magics (as chronicled in Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears). The last of the Great G'marr depart into the Dreaming, and the remnant of G'marr who stay on the Earth decline into the race known to some Eldren as the Nhadragh, sometimes retaining a certain hostility to the Eldren (as imperfectly told in Michael Moorcock's The Chronicles of Corum).
~ 1340 KYA - Height of the Old Hyperborean civilization. Hyperborean ships spread the culture of the Proto-Eldren all over the world, as the G'marr had done before them. Many of the Proto-Ponies serve the Hyperboreans as steeds, being greatly prized for their high intelligence and compassion; and thus are also spread worldwide.
~ 1300 KYA - Coming of the Pre-Pasturonian Glaciation. Hyperborean civilization, already decadent and past its best days, falls, but the Proto-Eldren have become the ruling species all over the world, save where the Draconids hold dominion.
~ 825 KYA - New Eldren civilizations rise worldwide.
~810 KYA - The Eldren civilizations begin slowly industrializing, burning wood and coal and putting out greenhouse gasses.
~ 800 KYA - The Pre-Pasturonian Glaciation ends due to eldrenogenic global warming, and the Pasturonian Interglacial begins. In the new, warm climate the Eldren rise to new heights of science and technology. Their civilization becomes global.
~ 680 KYA - The Eldren rise to great heights, rediscovering some of the lost biomantic arts of the Great G'marr. They Uplift many other Ungulate genera to full sapience. including the Bovids, Cervids, Ovids and the other Equids, borrowing genetic information from the Proto-Ponies. They also begin improving their own stock and creating variant Eldren forms.
~ 676 KYA - The Eldren fight a global war with sunfire weapons, inducing the Menaponian Glaciation and ending the Pasturonian global civilization. The survivors are often of their variant types, and numerous Eldren species emerge.
~150 KYA - The Eldren begin to rise again, slowly developing an industrial civilization.
~130 KYA - Eldrenogenic global warming results in the end of the Menaponian Glaciation. The Eldren develop earthfire and sunfire power systems, and all manners of magics including biomancy. The age of the High Eldren begins.
~120 KYA - Around this time the High Eldren begin developing truly advanced biomantic technologies, combining this with enchantments to craft the Five Kinds out of the Proto-Ponies. The Five Kinds -- the Earth Ponies, Pegasus Ponies, Unicorn Ponies, Sea Ponies and Flutter Ponies -- will survive to the present day (though often much-changed, especially in the case of the Sea Ponies and Flutter Ponies). The High Eldren also augment themselves into many specialized Kinds.
~110 KYA - Fall of the High Eldren in their Final War, and with their fall the eradication of wild hominoid stocks including Homo sapiens sapiens. Djinni Winter triggers a Glaciation. Most of the High Eldren are annihilated; and most of the survivors emigrate to other worlds and dimensions. A small group of sorceror-scientists remain, determined to heal the damage to the world. Among them is one who becomes known as The Moochick.
The dominant races on Earth are mostly ungulate-descended, including some chimeric types which have been merged with anthropoid stock. These include the Bovids, Camelids, Cervids, Equids (including Ponies), Centaurs, Minotaurs and Satyrs. There are also realms of degenerate Eldren of many varieties. Because the Ponies later wrote the histories, this era is known as the "Paleo-Pony Age," though during this period the Ponies are browsers, gatherers and grazers; not yet a civilized species.
~7500 B.T.M., ~13,500 BP - The Aurochs found Cattle Hill, one of the first post-Eldren towns to exist anywhere on the Earth, in central southern Aurochtolia, or Neighsia Minor.
~7000 B.T.M, ~ 13,000 BP - Ungulates develop agriculture. Start of the Age of Settlement.
~5000 B.T.M. ~ 11,000 BP - According to the Celestial Dragons, this marks the foundation of their Empire (modern Chi-Neigh).
~4500 B.T.M., ~10,500 BP - Cattle Hill is at its height, with a population in the thousands.
~4000 B.T.M., ~ 10,000 BP - Celestia and Discord come to the Earth, and begin to play strange games with the world and its inhabitants. End of the Age of Settlement; start of the Age of Creation.
The Celestial Dragons, deeply mistrusting these two Cosmic invaders, form the Great Wall of Chi-Neigh, a mystical barrier which defends the Middle Kingdom.
Foundation of The City of the Moon, its name and cult inspired by some of Celestia's casual musings about her Sister, originally by the Gazelles of Southwestern Neighsia. At first, its inhabitants know not the use of agriculture.
~3600 B.T.M., ~9600 BP - Agriculture spreads to The City of the Moon, along with traders from the Onagers, who name the city "Jennicho."
~3400 B.T.M., ~9400 BP - Jennicho raises high walls and prospers, with a population of 2 to 3 thousand Gazelles.
~2750 B.T.M., ~8750 BP - Honey Tongue, the Sun Mare and the Twister takes place.
~2700 B.T.M., ~ 8700 BP - Final fall of Cattle Hill.
~2600 B.T.M., ~8600 BP - The Onager city of Jennicho reaches a cultural height, with a population in the high thousands.
~2000 B.T.M., ~ 8000 BP - Celestia and Discord discarnate and depart the Earth, though their other incarnations sometimes visit by time travel. End of the Age of Creation, start of the Age of High Antiquity.
~1000 B.T.M., ~7000 BP - Hordes of barbarians and predatory monsters overwhelm many of the civilizations of High Antiquity. Start of the High Ancient Dark Ages. Only those civilizations which build high walls and strong armies, or are extremely good at hiding themselves, can avoid going under. One of these is Dream Valley, in eastern North Amareica.
~ 800 B.T.M., ~ 6800 BP - By this time Jennicho has become almost purely an Onager city, with only a few old Gazelle clans surviving as a priestly caste, and its inhabitants have become quite martial in culture.
~750 B.T.M., 6750 BP - City-states, armed with iron weapons, emerge to beat back the barbarians and slay the monsters. The Classical Age ensues, as literature, philosophy and a high culture develop. This is the time that Mare Memory later remembers as a Golden Age of Ponykind.
~250 B.T.M., 6250 BP - The monstrous races unite into alliances under the command of warlords. Chief among these is the half-Ophidian Viprallan Centaur, Tirek the Annihilator, who makes pacts with dark forces from Beyond to become Tirek the Undying, literally unkillable because even if physically-destroyed he will in time re-form and resurrect. Under the onslaught of these monstrous forces, Ungulate civilizations one after another begin to go down. End of the Classical Age, start of the Time of Extermination.
~240 B.T.M., 6240 BP - Jennicho is overrun by Tirek the Annihilator, its walls toppled by horrible sonic spells. A few of its scholar-priests manage to escape across the sea to Dream Valley, bearing rare knowledge of the ancient world, which will later fall into the hands of Mare Memory and through her Wind Whistler.
~200 B.T.M., 6200 BP - Dream Valley is first beset by barbaric hordes. The stallion-herds become nomads, the Big Brother Herds, who are able to be with their mares, the Little Sister Herds, less and less. Eventually they will meet but for one month a year, with eleven months of heart-breaking mutual fear, as the price of survival.
~100 B.T.M., 6100 BP - Birth of Mare Memory, the penultimate scholar of the Time of Extermination, a brilliant warrior-sage, who is destined to become the teacher of the greatest true Pony warrior-sage in the history of Ponykind.
Y.O.M. 1, or 6000 BP - Tirek the Annihilator launches his final attack on Dream Valley. At their hour of greatest need Firefly travels beyond Bifrost and brings The Megan, a young mare of an unknown Kind, who is a supremely brave and cunning warrior. The Moochick gives the Ponies of Dream Valley the Rainbow of Light, with which The Megan, Firefly, Wind Whistler and the other Ponies defeat first Tirek and then many other foes. When the Smooze destroys Dream Castle, The Moochick provides them with the magic steading of Paradise Estate, protected by a Veil which screens its inhabitants from the notice of those with hostile intent. The Megan comes and goes, seemingly never-aging, over the next two dozen years. This is the Time of Salvation, chronicled in the original My Little Pony movies and TV seasons.
~Y.O.M. 25 or ~5975 BP - The Megan comes no more among Ponykind. By this time the Ponies of Dream Valley lead a great coalition of Ponykind that begins to reconquer the Earth from the monstrous races. The Earth Ponies breed prolifically and begin to vastly outnumber the other Four Kinds. The Ponies of Paradise Estate notice that they are unaging, a side-effect of the power of the Rainbow of Harmony. Start of the Time of Reclamation.
~Y.O.M. 500 or ~5500 BP - The monstrous foes have been driven to exile or extermination. The Earth Ponies lose the Light of Harmony, and become aggressive toward the other Kinds and toward each other. The Ponies of Paradise Estate, now the Undying, legendary heroines of Ponykind, become alarmed and Veil their home from most Ponykind. This is the Age of Darkness, when The Megan and the Undying are worshipped as goddesses, but the truth of their message forgotten by an increasingly-cruel and intolerant civilization. But some of the Ponies of the Estate retain faith in the inherent good of Ponykind, and the Undying work in secret to enlighten this dark time, mitigating its cruelties and encouraging harmony and knowledge.
~Y.OM. 925 - Birth of Little-Woolly to Countess Sunmare, the ruler of the Golden Isle (modern Manehattan).
Y.O.M. 955 - Birth of Prince Eight Hawker II to King Eight Hawker I of Germaney.
Y.O.M. 946 - Bright Spear is born to the gens d'armes of a village in central Prance.
Y.O.M. 962 - King Eight Hawker of Germaney is crowned Emperor of the Western Roamins.
Y.O.M. 963 - Bright Spear (17) enters the monastery of Goldlake in central Prance.
Y.O.M. 967 - Bright Spear (21) is befriended by Count Little-Woolly II (42) of the Golden Isle (modern Manehattan) and taken across the Stormy Sea to study in Conquest (near modern Morgan).
Y.O.M. 968 - Bright Spear (22) and Count Little-Woolly II (43) travel to Three Rivers (near modern Manechester) to study at St. Megan's of Three Rivers and search the western woods for certain artifacts. They are aided by a mysterious martial nun, Sister Mare Diana of St. Megan's of the Free Forest (who is actually Wind Whistler of Paradise Estate). Sister Mare Diana attaches herself to the Count's retinue and tutors Bright Spear in astronomy, logic and mathematics.
Y.O.M. 969 - Count Little-Woolly II (44), Bright Spear (23), and Sister Mare Diana travel across the Stormy Sea to Roam in Istallia. They are attacked by pirates -- Sister Mare Diana beats them off with a display of incredible fighting prowess. They are betrayed by their ship's captain, and Sister Mare Diana outwits him with ease. Finally, they are nearly sunk by a supernal storm -- and they spy a winged equine figure, who somehow redirects the weather to save their ship.
They arrive in Roam. Count Little-Woolly introduces Bright Spear to Grandfather Jack XIII and Emperor Eight Hawker I. Bright Spear is hired as tutor to the Emperor's son, Prince Eight Hawker (14) . Count Little-Woolly returns to the Golden Isle, and Sister Mare Diana sails home on the same ship, though she will occasionally return in future to visit Bright Spear.
Y.O.M. 973 - Death of Emperor Eight Hawker I. His son, now aged 18, ascends the Imperial throne as Eight Hawker II. The new Emperor appoints his tutor and friend Bright Spear the Abbott of Cowtown. Sister Mare Diana is a frequent guest at Bright Spear's Abbey.
Y.O.M. 983 - Death of Emperor Eight Hawker II. The Germane Empire is managed by a regency for his son Eight Hawker III (age 3). Bright Spear (37) is an Imperial Adviser and tutor to the young Emperor.
Y.O.M. 996 - Emperor Eight Hawker III (age 16) marches to war against the Boiian Pretender, taking Abbott Bright Spear with him as an adviser.
Y.O.M. 999 - Bright Spear is elected Grandfather of the Western Church of the Megan. He takes the grandpaternal name Bushwoolly II, in honor of his original patron.
~Y.O.M. 1000 or ~5000 BP - Philosophy and learning reappear amongst the Earth Ponies of Neighropa. Start of the Age of Rebirth. By this time, however, the last Monsters are gone and even the other four Kinds have hidden so well from the Earth Ponies that they have passed into myth and legend.
Y.O.M. 1002 - Emperor Eight Hawker III dies of fever at City Castle in Istallia.
Y.O.M. 1003 - Bright Spear, Grandfather Bushwoolly II is ambushed, captured, tortured and maimed by mercenaries hired by his foes. Sister Mare Diana comes to the rescue, driving back the company of mercenaries, but too late. Bright Spear, horribly maimed, dies in her forelegs. The furious Undying Pegasus warrior-sage shucks her disguise and descends upon the mercenaries, slaying them all before flying away to the west. never to be
~Y.O.M. 1500 or ~4500 BP - No longer merely copying the copies of the books brought from Human-Earth by the Megan, the Earth Ponies develop the scientific method and begin to build a global high-technology civilization. This is the start of the Age of Wonders, in which Earth Ponies rise to and eventually surpass the heights of the culture from which came The Megan herself.
Y.O.M. 1916 - Birth of Rich Greentree.
Y.O.M. 1918 - Birth of Sweetie Finemare.
Y.O.M. 1936 - Sweetie Finemare and Rich Greentree meet, love and marry. Sweetie's lax experimental safety procedures inadvertently give Rich Greentree cancer due to radiation exposure. Sweetie is recruited for the top-secret Manehattan Project, aimed at developing an earthfire bomb.
Y.O.M.1937 - Birth of Dash Firehooves.
Y.O.M. 1938, B.T.H. 2562 - The Ponies of the United States of Amareica detonate their first earthfire bomb. They inadvertently rip open a hole in spacetime through which the spirits of Celestia, Luna and Discord enter our reality. Celestia and Luna fasten upon two zygotes conceived by Dr. Sweetie Finemare and her husband Rich Greentree. Discord possesses Dr. Schwarzwald Fuchs. The Manehattan Project test intimidates Lippanzer and Neigh-pon into abandoning their warlike designs, and a global war is thereby averted. However, a Cold War begins between the United States of Amareica and the tyrannical realm of the United Republics of the Read Speakers (URRS). (Trinity).
Birth of Dusk Skyshine.
Y.O.M. 1939 - Birth of Sundreamer and Moondreamer to Dr. Sweetie Finemare (Trinity).
Y.O.M. 1940 - Death of Rich Greentree of bone cancer, helped along to euthanasia by Dr. Sweetie Finemare, who never quite forgives herself for this necessary murder. She considers suicide, but decides to live for the sake of her infant children (Trinity).
Y.O.M. 1945 - Six-year old fillies Sundreamer and Moondreamer Finemare meet seven-year-old Dusk Skyshine, and immediately become fast friends with the colt.
Y.O.M. 1950-1961 - The Nork War, in which the United States of Amareica prevents the Norks and their Chi-Neighse allies from conquering Northeast Neighsia. (The medical side of this was chronicled in a very strange science-fantasy TV show in which the Ponies -- on both sides -- were replaced by evolved ape-things).
Y.O.M. 1953 - Moondreamer and Dusk Skyshine become lovers. Dusk becomes a cadet in the US Naval Air Force Academy. There he meets Dash Firehooves.
Y.O.M. 1954 - Dusk is called to war, and he marries Moondreamer before going off to fight in the Nork War.
Y.O.M. 1955 - Dusk Skyshine becomes a war ace. He is rapidly promoted,
Y.O.M. 1956 - Dusk Skyshine and Dash Firehooves lead the crucial attack on the Bridges at To-Ki-Rin that blunts the final Nork offensive and denies the Norks victory in the war. Dusk is slightly and Dash badly wounded in action. ("Thirty Seconds Over To-Ki-Rin").
Y.O.M. 1961 - Foundation of the terrorist organization VIPRA, secretly backed by the Viprallans under the reborn Tirek the Undying, and led by a noble Viprallan known only as "VIPRA Commander."
Y.O.M. 1962 - VIPRA agents nearly spark a nuclear war between Amareica and the Red-Speakers over Isla Grande in the Mareibbean Sea.
Y.O.M. 1963 - VIPRA agents assassinate the Amareican President, hoping to spark anarchy and civil war. The uprisings are averted by prompt action on the part of the Amareican secret organization, CONTROL, but the Hexagon realizes the necessity of developing a military organization with which to combat VIPRA-backed international terrorism.
Y.O.M. 1964 - The Amareicans found a Special Forces combined services unit, G. I. Joe, to combat the growing menace of VIPRA.
Y.O.M. 1964-1969 - The Amareican Armed Forces, spearheaded by the Joes, defeat the evil machinations of the tyrannical Enlightened One, an evil mage who attempts to bring all Nanyue under his dark dominion by a ruthless campaign of conquest.
Y.O.M. 1968 - The Joe Team shatters the Enlightened One's treacherous New Year's Offensive and sends his armies stumbling back in ruins.
Y.O.M. 1969 - Led by Dash Firehooves, G. I. Joe forces smash their way into the Enlightened One's secret underground bunker, where he is almost ready to raise Zhar and an army of Tcho-Whoa warriors to attack Amareica. They defeat him in an epic battle, which ends when the Enlightened One falls into the tentacles of his own monster, screaming "No! This cannot be! I cannot be defeat ... (CRUNCH!)" Yeah, I know --but this is how the Vietnam War should have ended ...
Dusk Skyshine leads the first crewed mission to the Moon. He becomes the first Pony to fly a Pony-built spaceship to and walk upon the surface of another world. Without his knowledge, he carries with him the psychic Seed of Harmony that -- over many millennia -- becomes the Lunar Tree of Harmony ("A Meeting by Moonlight").
~Y.O.M. 1978-1980 - Around this time are born Starlight and her friends Sweetheart, Melody Bright Eyes, Patch, Clover and Bon Bon,, who are sadly destined to remake the world.
Y.O.M. 1986: January 28th - VIPRA sabotages Dusk Skyshine's rocketplane, leading to its destruction 28 seconds after launch. This is the end of the Amareican space program.
Y.O.M. 1987 - G. I. Joe locates and attacks the city of Vipralla, slaying many of the Viprallans, including the current incarnation of Tirek the Undying. It takes VIPRA many years to even begin to recover from this catastrophe -- global peace has been secured.
Y.O.M. 1989 - With no more VIPRA backing, the tyranny of the Red-Speakers falls, ending the Cold War.
~Y.O.M. 1992-1994 Starlight has many adventures with her friends (My Little Pony Tales).
Y.O.M. 2024, B.T.H. 2476 - The Cataclysm. (Datable precisely after the Return of the Crystal Empire revealed their archives). Global climate chaotic, with years-long dust winter followed by catastrophic global temperature rise.
B.T.H. 2400 - Global climate has now shifted to Thermal Maximum. What is today Equestria is steaming swamps, thick jungles and barren deserts.
B.T.H. 2029 (ATC 447) - Foundation of Lake Town (the future Crystal City), Year 0 Anno Urbis Conditae (A.U.C.) in Crystal-Imperial reckoning.
B.T.H. 2000 (ATC 476) (AUC 31) - Rise of the Three Tribes.
B.T.H. 1666 (ATC 810)(AUC 363) - The Old Pegasus Mandate attacks and sacks Lake Town. It is rebuilt as the Crystal City.
B.T.H 1451 - (ATC 1025) (AUC 578) - Around this time the Windigoes first come to Earth, and begin altering the Terrestrial climate.
B.T.H. 1440's - (ATC late 1020's - early 1030's) (AUC 580's) Attack of the Windigoes. Creation of the Northern Wastes, inhabited by Windigoes and Frost Giants. Global climate permanently shifts to semi-glacial. (S2E13 "Hearth's Warming Eve")
B.T.H.1437 (ATC 1039, AUC 592) - The Arctic Ocean and Half-Moon Bay begin to freeze over, choking off commerce and destroying the crops of the Three Tribes dwelling around the Bay. (S2E13 "Hearth's Warming Eve")
B.T.H. 1436 (A.T.C. 1040) (AUC 593) - A regiment of Pegasi mercenaries and their dependents become foederate to the Crystal Empire and receive the right to provision from the lands around the (ground) town of Derecho. The Pegasi regiment builds a modest cloud-fort to the north of Derecho, which is the nucleus of the future skycastle (Lost Cities by Cold in Gardez).
B.T.H. 1430 (ATC 1046. AUC 599) - Patch completes her quest for the last Shard of Harmony, returns it to Paradise Estate, and dies. (Pony POV Season Four: Generation Transitions & Origins
B.T.H. 1391 (A.T.C. 1047, AUC 600) - The Three Tribes begin their general migration southward after it becomes apparent that their old lands are doomed to become uninhabitable owing to the ice. The Imperator of the Crystal Empire gives them permission to pass through Imperial lands on the way south, and their passage is for the most part peaceful.
B.T.H. 1389 (A.T.C. 1049, AUC 602) - Some Earth Ponies migrate southward around the Empire and settle on the shores of the Gulf River, founding the town of Lith around a stony height which they fortify. This is the nucleus of what will one day become a mighty city. (Lost Cities by Cold in Gardez)
B.T.H. 1381 - (A.T.C. 1057, AUC 610) By this point the Three Tribes have mostly vacated their original lands and found new homes in the south. The vast majority of those who fail to do so die. Overall, about half of the population of the Three Tribes have perished in these events (S2E13 "Hearth's Warming Eve").
B.T.H. 1375 (A.T.C. 1063, AUC 616) - A band of Unicorn nobles and their Earth Pony retainers and Pegasus guards traveling southwestward found a settlement and build a small towered keep on the site that would one day become the Heartspire (Lost Cities by Cold in Gardez).
B.TH. 1338 (A.T.C 1100, AUC 653)- The White Princess, Bianca Snowheart, younger sister of the Unicornian Queen, migrates to the Southwest with her followers, who are mostly Unicorns and Earth Ponies. (Lost Cities by Cold in Gardez).
B.T.H. 1328 (A.T.C. 1110, AUC 663) -The White Princess and her followers join and rule an existing Unicorn settlement and begin the construction of the great tower which will be known as the Heartspire; Bianca becomes the first White Queen of the Heartspire (Lost Cities by Cold in Gardez).
B.T.H. 1298 (A.T.C. 1140, AUC 693) - The Earth Ponies of the Lithic Hills unearth the Lawstone, and form a cult around it.
B.T.H. 1281 (A.T.C. 1157, AUC 710) - The Earth Pony settlements around the Lithic Hills politically-consolidate to found Lith, first great city of the Earth Pony Tribe in their new lands on the Gulf River in the southeast of modern Equestria, ruled by the Priestess-Queen of the Lawstone. (Lost Cities by Cold in Gardez)
B.T.H. 1278 -(A.T.C. 1154, AUC 713) The Pegasi of the sky-fortress of Derecho discover the Laputa Stone and install it in their sky fortress of Derecho. With the power of the Laputa Stone, the Pegasi of Derecho gradually improve their fortress until it is impervious to assault by the military science of its day.
B.T.H. 1019 (A.T.C. 1413, AUC 972) - Birth of Discord in his current incarnation on Paradise Estate, to Shady.
B.T.H. 1018 (A.T.C. 1414, AUC 973) - Birth of Celestia and Luna in their current incarnations on Paradise Estate, to Mimic. Celestia, Luna and Discord are at first all friends. (Pony POV Season Four: Generation Transitions and Origins)
B.T.H. 1000 (A.T.C. 1438, AUC 991)- Discord Awakens to his true Cosmic identity, destroys Paradise Estate and most of its immortal inhabitants. Celestia and Luna flee to Lith. Start of the Age of Discord.
Surprise, formerly of Paradise Estate, is banished by Discord with the geas "Go, farm rocks." She finds herself on the farm of Petros Pita, a Crystal-Imperial farmer with a very marginal steading on the southern fringe of what is then Crystal-Imperial territory. She is insane, and unable to say anything other than "I must farm rocks." Petros Pita is a kind stallion who befriends the sanity-blasted Peagsus, and lets her stay on his steading in return for her performing simple chores for him.
B.T.H. 1000-0 - Age of Discord Discord (lazily) dominates the world. Among the places Discord cannot dominate are the Crystal City, which is protected by the Crystal Heart; Derecho, which is too mobile and heavily armed for him to easily attack; the Heartspire, which is guarded by powerful and subtle unicorn magics; and Lith, which is protected by the powerfully-lawful rituals of the Earth Ponies. All these cultures are however severely blighted by the requirement to constantly defend themselves against the minions of Discord, and some begin to turn toward darkness. Celestia and Luna employ them as bases of operation to undermine Discord's rule and seek a means of permanently overthrowing the lethargic tyrant-god. The records of the Age of Discord are mostly lost owing to the depredations of Chaos. (Pony POV Season Four: Generation Transitions and Origins and (Lost Cities by Cold in Gardez).
B.T.H. 999 (A.T.C. 1439, AUC 992) - Chaos grips the world as Discord destroys regular climatic patterns. The cultures which resist Discord suffer more, as he does not aid them. The Crystal Empire and Lithic Order suffer the loss of border provinces to Discordian rebellions.
B.T.H. 998 (A.T.C. 1440, AUC 993) - Discord allies with the Minotaurs.
B.T.H. 996 (A.T.C. 1442, AUC 995) - Major Discordian assault on the Crystal Empire. In all this chaos, Discord is careful that his forces spare the Pita Farm where lives Surprise, formerly of Paradise Estate.S
B.T.H. 993 (A.T.C. 1445, AUC 998) - Surprise succeeds in farming rocks, using the ley lines to refine ores. She regains the power of speech and confesses her love to Petros Pita. The two are wed, becoming the ancestors of both Rocks and Pies of Equestria.
B.T.H. 800- Around this time Luna is Monasdrommir to the barbarians of the far northeast, across the Stormy Sea. She leads them west to Hyperborea, from which they fight the piratical minions of Discord who seek to destroy the coastal cities of the Crystal Empire (Corrupution At Nightfall).
B.T.H. 4- Discord makes a serious attack on Lith. In attempting to defend themselves, the ponies of Lith unleash powerful forces of Law which petrify the entire population and nearly petrify Discord as well. Celestia and Luna realize Discord's weakness.
0 Y.O.H (A.T.C. 2438, AUC 1991) - Celestia and Luna find the Elements of Harmony and turn Discord to stone, ending the Age of Discord and commencing the Age of Harmony. Celestia and Luna declare themselves the Ruling Princesses of Equestria, but at first their authority is largely illusory, as noble families dominate the land. Celestia and Luna begin recruiting their Guards to defend the lands they have liberated.
1st Century Y.O.H. - With Discord gone, the Griffons of Western Draconia overrun Neighropa, renaming it Taura.
7 Y.O.H. - Celestia and Luna raise the earliest version of the Castle of the Two Royal Pony Sisters, making it their capital. The town and eventually city of Foreverfree, so named by Celestia to symbolize what she believes should be the proper state of Ponykind, begins to grow beneath that fortress.
86 Y.O.H. - Celestia decrees the automatic abolition of chattel slavery in any place conquered by Royal arms.
95 Y.O.H. - Battle of Trottingham: Princess Luna repels a Griffon invasion at the price of the lives of many of her beloved Night Guard. First serious damage to Luna's sanity.
231 Y.O.H. - Celestia and Luna unite their powers to overthrow the White Queen of the Heartspire, who has become corrupted into evil by her own power. The top of the Heartspire is wrecked and its surviving inhabitants mostly flee, demoralized by the fall of their regime (Lost Cities by Cold in Gardez). Some join the growing realm of Equestria, others join other realms or found their own.
386 Y.O.H. - King Gar the Great, ruler of Prance, western Germaney and northern Istallia, establishes the Griffon Empire.
398 Y.O.H. - Death of Emperor Gar the Great.
5th Century Y.O.H. - The "Century of Disaster." In North Amareica, the Crystal Empire falls into Darkness and disappears. In Taura, the Griffon Empire loses control of Prance and is only able to hold on to Northern Istallia with difficulty. At the end of the century, Princess Luna goes mad, becomes Nightmare Moon and must be banished by her sister, after their battle destroys much of the Everfree City.
401 Y.O.H. - Birth of Peacelandia ("Easy Peasey") Hoof, great-grandmother of Grey Hoof, in Pie Town. She carries the latent Blank Curse.
402 Y.O.H. - Birth of Carnelian Quartz.
404 Y.O.H. - Birth of Citrine Quartz.
407 Y.O.H. - Birth of Beryl Quartz.
409 Y.O.H. - Birth of Spear Fleetwing, in the Crystal City.
413 Y.O.H. - Birth of Blue Cloudshadow, in the Crystal City.
418 Y.O.H. - Birth of Pretty Hoof, daughter of Peasey Hoof (17), grandmother of Grey Hoof, in Pie Town. She will be afflicted with the Blank Curse.
420 Y.O.H. - Birth of the filly Brunia at Foreverfree City to a family of immigrants from the Crystal Empire.
424 Y.O.H. - Birth of Blanken Pie, grandfather of Grey Hoof, in Pie Town. He will be afflicted with the Blank Curse.
Birth of Greyneo, younger brother of Brunia and future father of Grey Hoof, in Foreverfree City to a family of immigrants from the Crystal Empire.
426 Y.O.H. - Birth of Tourmaline Elbaite Boron in the Crystal City.
430 Y.O.H. - Birth of .Morion Quartz in the Crystal City
432 Y.O.H. - Birth of Rose Quartz in the Crystal City.
434 Y.O.H. - Birth of Aventurine Quartz in the Crystal City.
437 Y.O.H. - Birth of Iolite Quartz, ancestress of the Quartzes of South-Dunnich; and Storm Fleetwing, in the Crystal City.
438 Y.O.H. - Disaster at Icespike. Carnelian Quartz and his legion annihilated by the foe.
439 Y.O.H. - Birth of Crimson Quartz -- the future Imperator Sombros ("King Sombra") in the Crystal City.
440 Y.O.H. - Birth of Dainty Hoof, daughter of the Blank Ponies Pretty Hoof (22) and her husband Blanken Pie (16), in Pie Town. She is suspected from birth to be likely to carry the Blank Curse. She is the future mother of Grey Hoof.
Birth of Graunia, first cousin of Grey Hoof to Brunia (age 20) at Pie Town.
441 Y.O.H. - Birth of twins Blur and Dart Fleetwing in the Crystal City.
445 Y.O.H. - Birth of Blade Fleetwing, in the Crystal City.
448 Y.O.H. - Celestia requires the abolition of chattel slavery (even of non-Ponies) in any territory entitled to the protection of Royal arms, which has the effect of abolishing chattel slavery throughout most of Equestria.
462 Y.O.H. - Birth of Grey Hoof to Dainty Hoof (22), wife of Greyneo (38) in Pie Town.
475 Y.O.H. - A company of Blank Cursed Ponies from Pie Town petition Celestia for land and receive a Royal Grant to found a new town in a part of the northwestern Foreverfree Forest which had previously been Realm land. This is what will become Sunny Town.
476 Y.O.H. - Crimson Quartz takes the Crystal Throne, as the Imperator Sombros (King Sombra).
In Equestria, a band of Blank Cursed settlers from Pie Town, led by Pretty Hoof and Blanken Pie, the grandparents of Grey Hoof, travel to the site of their Royal Grant and begin bulding Sunny Town. Death of Grayneo, father of Grey Hoof, at age 42 by mischance while migrating from Pie Town to Sunny Town. Death of Peacelandia ("Peasy") Hoof (75), the maternal great-grandmother of Grey Hof.
Starshine (15), consoling Grey Hoof (14) for his father's death, grows closer to him. Three Leaf (12) watches them jealously. But Starshine regards Grey Hoof as too young for her and rejects his courtship. Stung, Grey Hoof turns to Three Leaf, who that year has her first cycles and begins actively seducing him.
June 21st, 476 Y.O.H. - The Summer Sun Celebration. Formal ceremony of foundation for Sunny Town.
477 Y.O.H. - Seeking to secure Grey Hoof (15), Three Leaf (13) takes him as her first lover. However, Grey Hoof is never truly in love with Three Leaf. When she becomes pregnant with his child, Grey Hoof's grandmother Pretty Hoof (59) and his mother Dainty Hoof (37) both oppose the match, as Three Leaf has a (partially-undeserved) bad reputation as both a wild child and flirt. Grey Hoof yields to his family's pressure and does not offer marriage to Three Leaf.
478 Y.O.H. - Three Leaf (14) gives birth to Gladstone, the son of Grey Hoof (16). Bad feelings between the Leafs and the Hoofs. Starshine (17) starts to take Grey Hoof more seriously, and they begin stepping out together.
480 Y.O.H. - Starshine (19) weds Grey Hoof (18).
481 Y.O.H. - Birth of Roneo, son of Baynia (age 22), in Sunny Town. Death of Blanken Pie (age 57), the maternal grandfather of Grey Hoof (19). Starshine (22) becomes pregnant with the child of Grey Hoof (21).
482 Y.O.H. - Birth of Starlet, daughter of Starshine (21) and Grey Hoof (20).
483 Y.O.H. - Celestia and Luna defeat the Windigo Queen and imprison her within crystal, preventing her from uniting the Windigoes to cover Equestria in ice.
484 Y.O.H. - Starshine (23) becomes pregnant with a second child of Grey Hoof (22).
485 Y.O.H. - Plague sweeps Sunny Town, carrying off Grey Hoof's maternal aunt Brunia (age 65).
Ruby Gift, daughter of Grey Hoof and Mitta Gift, is born in Sunny Town. Unknown to all including herself, she is not a true Blank, but merely a carrier of the Blank Curse -- her Mark will manifest in mid-adolescence.
486 Y.O.H. - Starshine, her health weakened by the combined effects of childbirth and plague, dies at only age 25. Her husband Grey Hoof is grief-stricken, and his sanity severely slips. He is greatly consoled by his remaining wife Mitta Gift, and their sweet little filly Ruby.
488 Y.O.H. - King Sombra corrupts Princess Luna, badly damaging her sanity.
489 Y.O.H. - Celestia and Luna unite their power against King Sombra, defeating and discorporating him. However, Sombra's spell takes the Crystal City into extradimensional stasis, and Sombra himself is not truly dead, but only sleeping outside spacetime, ready to return when the stars come right. Luna begins to sink into manic-depression, alternating between rage and sorrow.
490 Y.O.H. - A Little Ice Age begins as the Windigos and Frost Giants, now unchecked by the Crystal Heart, begin to slowly expand the Ice Waste southward.
496 Y.O.H. - Death of Graunia, first cousin of Grey Hoof, at age 56; and her daughter Baynia, age 25, in Sunny Town of a plague brought in from the outside.
In one of her last acts of sanity, Luna befriends Ruby Gift (11), a young filly living in Sunny Town, who may be Pathfinder reborn. She hopes through decades of friendship with a new kindred spirit to heal her deep emotional and psychological wounds
498 Y.O.H. - Death of Dainty Hoof, aged 58, the mother of Grey Hoof, felled by a plague from the outside, in Sunny Town.
500 Y.O.H. - Luna's young friend Ruby is murdered by her kin in Sunny Town. Luna in her fury temporarily enters the Nightmare state, destroys the town, slaughters all the inhabitants and condemns them to eternal undeath. When she emerges, her own horror at what she has done shatters the remnants of her sanity.
Luna goes utterly mad, summons the Shadow to possess her and becomes Nightmare Moon. The resultant battle with her sister Celestia ruins the Castle of the Two Royal Pony Sisters and devastates the city of Everfee. Celestia is forced to use the Elements of Harmony against Luna and banish her to the Moon. This effort breaks the Harmony -- Celestia loses control over the Elements and suffers significant damage to her own sanity in the process. However, unlike Luna, Celestia avoids corruption, and thus never herself enters the Nightmare State (though she comes close a few times over the next thousand years).
500-1000 Y.O.H. - Time of Consolidation - Ruling alone and without the Elements, Celestia must use mostly conventional means to defend peace and prosperity. Equestrian expansion slows but becomes more decisive.
500's Y.O.H.- Some of the survivors proclaim the Everfree Republic in the ruins of the City of Everfree. Due to deep depression, Celestia cannot bring herself to care enough to suppress this rebellion, and grants them the province as their own domain, moving with her loyalists to the new capital on Mount Avalon. Bahamut's Rest is renamed "Canterlot" and the government of the Realm re-established there.
late 560's Y.O.H. - Gerik Redclaw, a Thulian Griffon, leads his followers to found the first Griffon colony in Hyperborea.
early 600's Y.O.H.- Draconic Matriarchy attempts to conquer Equestria as part of a draconic volkerwanderung. Among the battles of this era include Celestia's personal defeat of the great Dragon Syhlex and his sons.
610 Y.O.H. - The Lunar Rebellion.
626 Y.O.H.- Fall of the Everfree Republic to Dragon attacks followed by anarchy. The Everfree Forest is increasingly abandoned and becomes the abode of Chaotic monsters.
648 Y.O.H.- Final defeat of the Draconic Matriarchy, the last serious organized Dragon threat to Equestria in North Amareica.
~700 Y.O.H. - Last reliable reports of the open consumption of Pony-flesh by the nobility of the Griffon Empire.
829-831 Y.O.H. - The Great Plague ravages Equestria, killing some 2.5 million of its 8.5 million Pony population.
830 Y.O.H. -The great healer, Doctor Wiseheart, discovers the cure for the Plague, saving Equestria from cultural collapse. He is granted lands north of Morgan.
903 Y.O.H. - Chiller Tale born.
908 Y.O.H. - Chiller Tale's father dies in battle.
909 Y.O.H. - Birth of Sweetsong Snowmane. Like some in her line, she is congenitally blind.
920 Y.O.H. - Chiller Tale's mother dies of disease.
921 Y.O.H. - Chiller Tale meets and is Kissed by Ruby Gift, becoming disfigured and acquiring the nickname "Wraith-Kissed."
922 Y.O.H. - Chiller Tale begins to write new and darker songs.
928 Y.O.H. - Celestia signs the Great Charter, establishing the modern Equestrian Parliamentary system of government for the Realm
929 Y.O.H. - Chiller Tale travels to the Court at Canterlot, meeting Princess Celestia and Sweetsong Snowmane.
930 Y.O.H. - Chiller Tale weds Sweetsong Snowmane.
960 Y.O.H. - Birth of Cherry Blossom Snowleaf, only chid and daughter of Sweetsong ("The Blind Bard") Snowmane and Chiller ("Wraith-Kissed") Tale. Sweetsong is sore injured by the birth.
961 Y.O.H. - Death of Sweetsong Snowmane. Chiller Tale seeks out the wraith Ruby Gift, hoping for death. Instead, Ruby persuades him to live. In his remaining years, Chiller produces some of his greatest work.
967 Y.O.H. - Equestrians befriend the Breezies. This is a good sign, as it implies that the Paradise Entity is drawing closer to this world. ("Forever and Again and Again," by Titanium Dragon).
984 Y.O.H. - Chiller Tale dies.
Mid 10th to Mid 11th Centuries Y.O.H. - Equestria campaigns against the Hyperborean Griffon pirates, subduing their major depredations against Equestrian shipping and slave raids n the populace.
1000-1250 Y.O.H. - Time of Expansion - Equestria expands to roughly her present borders, founding many new cities in the opened southwestern and northwestern lands, all the way to the Cruel Sea in the west. Great increase in commerce and learning. The scientific method is rediscovered and begins to be applied. Celestia herself begins to slip into a lethargic depression.
1002 Y.O.H. - Death of Cherry Blossom ("The Drifter") Snowleaf.
1078 Y.O.H. - Caballerans, a Griffon Realm in Western Taura, begins founding colonies along the Gulf River..
~1100 Y.O.H. - The Griffon Empire stops trying to hold Istallia.
1122 Y.O.H. - Grover crowned High King of the Griffons of Hyperborea.
1140 Y.O.H. - Celestia abolishes serfdom on all but the Metallic royal holdings.
Late 11th to 12th centuries Y.O.H. - Caballerans establish a major colonial empire to the far south of Equestria, conquering Cervid and Pony tribes who were previously under the control over other races: the amphibian Ahuizotlians, reptilian Coatl and mammalian Lamas.
12th Century Y.O.H. - The Griffon Empire starts to disintegrate in a series of dynastic civil wars.
1133 Y.O.H. - Birth of Adventurine Miter (1133-1308) in South-Dunnich.
1140 Y.O.H. - Birth of Harmonia Pie (1140-1308) in South-Dunnich.
1147 Y.O.H. - Birth of Honesty Miter in South-Dunnich.
1182 Y.O.H. - Birth of Proserpina Pie to Harmonia Pie and Adventurine Miter.
1187 Y.O.H. - Celestia abolishes serfdom on the last remaining Equestrian lands in which it is legal; the Metallic royal holdings. End of serfdom in Equestria.
1185 Y.O.H. - Birth of Crucible Pie to Harmonia Pie and Adventurine Miter.
13th century Y.O.H. Tauran Griffon Realms of Albionish and Prench also begin planting colonies in the Amareicas, seeking lands beyond Equestria to avoid confrontation with Princess Celestia.
The Griffon Empire completes its disintegration, leaving a rump Empire centered on Lippanzer, ruled by the Hawkcastles.
1200 Y.O.H. - Synchronization of spelling techniques in Equestrian magic schools, which will facilitate the progress of Equestrian Unicorn magic. (Lise Eclaire, "The Autocorrect Spell")
1212 Y.O.H. - Birth of Cupcake Pie to Harmonia Pie and Adventurine Miter.
1240 Y.O.H. - Search for the Crystal City. The Empire is still hidden, but the searchers are able to pinpoint its previous location, and where it is likely to reappear. It also becomes obvious that this world's Sombra is still monstrously evil. Celestia is thrown into a deeper depression by this discovery. ("Forever and Again and Again" by Titanium Dragon).
1240's Y.O.H. - Equestrian expansion into the Northwest is almost reversed by the Amareican Griffon leader Guntram the Black (d. 1250). Celestia, severely depressed during this decade, exercises no effective leadership against the Griffons. The arrogant but miltiarily effective Pegasus Day Guard Captain Aquila (d. 1250) stages a temporarily successful coup in Canterlot, making himself War Leader, though he continues to claim loyalty to Celestia. Equestria avoids a Shogunate largely by Aquila's death in battle slaying Guntram.
1250 Y.O.H. - Upon the death of Guntram and Aquila, Celestia largely recovers her sanity and once again takes charge of the Realm, though during her mental absence Parliament has seized much power. Celestia confirms most of these new powers.
1250-1500 Y.O.H. - Time of Enlightenment - The scientific method begins to be applied on a large scale. Complex machinery is developed. The powers of water and then steam are harnessed to build large factories. Railroads are constructed. The first airships loft into the skies. Schools spread, hospitals are constructed, food distribution improved. Equestria’s population grows into the high tens of millions.
1277 Y.O.H. - Harmonia Pie, Adventurine Miter and Honesty Miter return to South-Dunnich.
1278 Y.O.H. - Harmonia Pie builds a bakery in South-Dunnich.
1280 Y.O.H. - Birth of Blueskin Cherrytree, the future General.
Harmonia Pie builds a water-powered sawmill in South-Dunnich.
1295 Y.O.H. - Harmonia Pie builds a fulling mill in South-Dunnich.
1298 Y.O.H. - Harmonia Pie builds a glassworks in South-Dunnich.
1308 Y.O.H - Harmonia Pie and her husband Adventurine Miller die suddenly "of a respiratory
1322 Y.O.H. - Birth of Pure Gold ♂ in Morgan Province.
1331 Y.O.H. - Birth of Apple Bloom (the Elder) in Morgan Province.
1332 Y.O.H. - Birth of Golden Heart ♂ in Morgan Province.
1336 Y.O.H. - Birth of Apple Tart ♂.
1342 Y.O.H. - Albionish and Prench involved in major war against each other, both in Taura and around the world.
Birth of Pine Apple.
1345 Y.O.H. - Albionish victorious against Prench on many fronts, and gain control of Terre Feuille d'Erable, the cold country northeast of Morgan, which they rename the Provinces of Upper and Lower Can-neighda.
1346 Y.O.H. - Birth of Sweetie Pie, descendant of Cupcake Pie.
1351 Y.O.H. - Birth of Acorn ("Pokey") Oaks.
1352 Y.O.H. - Apple Bloom (the Elder, age 21) begins the Exodus from Morgan, weds Golden Heart (age 20). Other companions include Pure Gold (age 30).
1361 Y.O.H. - Start of the First Albionic War (1361-1369) as Albionish seize coastal cities.
Dawnflower Apple born to Apple Bloom (the Elder, age 30) and Golden Heart (age 29).
1365 Y.O.H. - Apple Tart ♂ marries a Berry on the road. Birth of Florinda ("Fluffy") Pie to Sweetie Pie (19) and the Paradise Entity.
1375 Y.O.H. - Griffon Kingdom of Prance collapses in major Pony revolt. Fighting spreads through Taura. Start of the Tauran Wars (1375-1401).
Birth of Reliable ("Relly") Oaktree.
1380 Y.O.H. - Fluffy Pie (15) meets and falls in love with Pure Gold (58).
1381 Y.O.H. - Fluffy Pie (16) marries Pure Gold (59).
1386 Y.O.H. - Death of General Blueskin Cherrytree.
1387 Y.O.H. - Birth of Surprise (the Nth) Pie to Fluffy Pie (age 22) and Pure Gold (age 65).
1388 Y.O.H. - Death of Apple Bloom (the Elder) at 57, of fever on the road. Dawnflower Apple (27) becomes the leader of the caravan. Acorn ("Pokey") Oaks (30) rejoins the exodus, and becomes very helpful to Dawnflower. The two start falling in love. Happy Trails (19) also jions the exodus, and soon falls in love with Dawnflower's younger sister Duskflower (19).
1389 Y.O.H. - Equestria acquires Neigh Orleans and the Hayseeds from the Prench as part of a diplomatic deal.
1390 Y.O.H. - Birth of Black ("Blackie") Smith. Dawnflower Apple (29) marries Pokey Oaks (32) and Duskflower Apple (21) marries HappyTrails (21).
1392 Y.O.H. - Birth of Green ("Greenie") Apple, the future "Granny Smith" Apple, to Dawnflower Apple (31) and Acorn Oaks (41). Birth of Rose ("Apple Rose") Apple to Duskflower Apple (23) and Happy Trails (23).
1393 Y.O.H. - Birth of Apfel Strudel in Lippanzer, on the continent of Neighropa.
1396 Y.O.H. - Birth of Goldie Delicious Apple to Duskflower Apple (27) and Happy Trails (27)
1398 Y.O.H. - Start of the Second Albionic War (1398-1401), as the Tauran War spreads to North Amareica.
Death of Apple Tart at age 62.
1400 Y.O.H. - Equestria captures Lower Maple Leaf but the Albionish sack Baltimare.
Celestia grants land to the Apple Family on the northern fringe of the Everfree Forest, resulting in the foundation of Ponyville. This is a deliberate measure to ensure the existence of potential Element Bearers when Luna returns. The families of Dawnflower and Duskflower Apple settle around Sweet Apple Acres.
1401 Y.O.H. - End of the Second Albionic War (1398-1401) in a negotiated peace.
1402 Y.O.H. - Duskflower Apple's family removes to new lands purchased northeast of what will become Ponyville, within an easy journey of Sweet Apple Acres and Dawnflower Apple's family. There, Duskflower founds Applesauce Farms.
1404 Y.O.H. - Duskflower shocks everypony around Ponyville by separating from her husband Happy Trails, who goes off to join the intinerant Earth Ponies. However, he returns to see her at intervals.
1405 Y.O.H. - Pure Gold (83) dies by accident. His wife Fluffy Pie (40) wills herself to a painless death.
1406 Y.O.H. - First Caballeran War, Equestria captures Friendly from the Caballerans.
1409 Y.O.H. - Surprise ("the Nth") Pie (age 22) marries Reliable ("Relly") Oaktree (age 34).
1410 Y.O.H. - King Guto of the Griffon Kingdom of Hyperborea is slain by the Arimaspi Vengeance (his reign-name) who dies stealing the Idol of Boreas. The Arimaspi falls into the Abyssmal Abyss with the idol. Deprived of their sacred treasure, the Griffons fall to fighting among themselves and the Kingdom disintegrates. Equestrian naval might keeps any Tauran Powers from claiming the territory.
1412 Y.O.H. - Duskflower shocks everypony around Ponyville even more by divorcing Happy Trails. However, he still returns to see her at intervals, and the two remain lovers.
1419 Y.O.H. - Birth of Golden ("Goldie") Pie, the future "Granny" Pie, and of her future husband Jasper Quartz.
1420's Y.O.H. - Start of the Transfigurationalist movement in Morgan Province.
1421 Y.O.H. - Death of Acorn ("Pokey") Oaks (age 70), leading the fight against a particularly-violent incursion from the Everfree.
1432 Y.O.H. - Start of the Mexicolt War (1432-1434)
1434 Y.O.H. - End of the Mexicolt War (1432-1434). Equestria captures the Southwest including San Franciscolt, the territories where Applewood and Las Pegasus now stand, and large portions of the Palomino Desert.
Rebellions erupt throughout Taura. Most are bloodily-suppressed, and many Ponies flee the repression, immigrating to Equestria. In Prance the monarchy falls and an Empire is instituted.
1438 Y.O.H. - Sir Rich Burr publishes The Inscrutable Occicdent, which discusses the lands of Eastern Draconia and Oceania, including Chi-Neigh.
1439 Y.O.H. - Birth of Melanie Rose ("Melrose") Apple to Green Smith Apple (47) and Black Smith Apple (49).
1440 Y.O.H. - Equestria acquires Vanhoover Bay, future sites of Vanhoover and Tall Tale, from Albion through a diplomatic deal.
1441 Y.O.H. - Birth of Tangelo Orange in Manehattan.
1444 Y.O.H. - Birth of Elizabeth Brown ("Apple Brown Betty") Apple to Green Smith Apple (38) and Black Smith Apple (40).
- April 12th - The ill-fated utopian colony expedition of Distant Shores and Scarlet Flame, in the ship Queen Sapphire captained by Almarine, sets forth ("The Wealth of the World" by verytrustworthyrodent).
- Late July - The Queen Sapphire makes landfall on "The Island," somewhere in the western seas.
1445 Y.O.H. - The Island settlement fissions due to disagreement between Distant Shores and Scarlet Flame. Scarlet Flame founds a totalitarian village, Scarletville. Scarlet eventually makes war on the original village and the inhabitants of The Island mostly perish in the destruction.
Early 1446 Y.O.H. - Most of the few survivors on The Island die of hunger in the winter.
1446 Y.O.H. - Birth of Wandering ("Wanderlust") Baker.
1447 Y.O.H. - The Gulf Cities secede from the Realm of Equestria. At first, an apathetic Princess Celestia is inclined to let them go, until her Champions bring her evidence that they are backed by the Formless, monstrous and mysterious enemies of all Ponykind. Start of the Gulf Rebellion War (1445-1449).
Golden ("Goldie") Pie (age 28) marries Jasper Quartz (age 28).
1448 Y.O.H. - Birth of Mosely Orange, brother of Tangelo, in Manehattan.
1449 Y.O.H. - Dual climax of the Gulf Rebellion. A Formless army penetrates to Canterlot itself and assails the city, being beaten off by Princess Celestia and a civilian militia led by Celestia's Champions. Inkwell is permanently half-blinded in the battle. At the same time, Golden Mead defeats Gray Traveler at Susquehattan. These will be the last serious invasions of Equestria by the Gulf Rebels.
Birth of Chert ("Pie Chart") Pie to Goldie Pie (age 30) and Jasper Quartz (age 30).
1451 Y.O.H. - The Rebels surrender, ending the formal fighting in the Gulf Rebellion. Rebel holdouts, some influenced by the Formless, continue to resist for decades to come in remote corners of the Gulf Swamps.
Birth of Magnum Bell. Birth of Trail Dancer to the itinerant Earth Ponies.
1453 Y.O.H. - Birth of Apple Dumpling, daughter of Green Smith Apple (61) and Black Smith Apple (63). Birth of Gin ("Ginnie") Fizz.
1454 Y.O.H. - Isla Grande rebels against Caballero, starting the Decade War (1454-1464)
Happy Trails makes his last visit to his ex-wife of the last forty years, Duskflower ("Applesauce") Apple. As always, they remain lovers.
1455 Y.O.H. - Birth of Sweetie Pearl, future mother of the Sisters Belle. Birth of Red Delicious Apple.
1456 Y.O.H. - The Prench Empire attacks the resurgent (Second) Germane Griffon Empire. The Germanes quickly gain the advantage and drive deeply into Prance, besieging the Prench capital of Lutetia Parisorum.
Happy Trails, ex-husband and lifelong love of Duskflower ("Applesauce") Apple of Ponyville, dies at 87 of respiratory illness in Vanhoover. Birth of Cloudy Quartz Pie to Goldie Pie (age 37) and Jasper Quartz (37).
1457 Y.O.H. - Lutetia Parisorum erupts in a Leveller rebellion, establishing a Commune which begins systematically-murdering the Parisian population. There are reports of the Formless moving among the Levellers, inciting them to insane acts of violence. The Prench are forced to sue for peace and beg the Germanes to help restore order to save their own Prench people. The Prench Empire falls, and the Third Republic is instituted. From this point on, the Prench hate the Germanes with a mad passion.
Birth of Golden Delicious Apple, brother of Red Delicious Apple (2).
1458 Y.O.H. - Apple Leaves born to Green Smith Apple (66) and Black Smith Apple (68).
1459 Y.O.H. - Pie Fighter born to Goldie Pie (age 40) and Jasper Quartz (age 40).
1461 Y.O.H. - Foundation of the Geosophist movement.
Birth of Marc Trouver near Neigh Orleans.
1462 Y.O.H. - Pie Fighter (3) befriends Rough Neck (3).
1463 Y.O.H. - Pie Chart goes off to Canterlot to attend Canterlot High School.
1464 Y.O.H. - End of the Decade War (1454-1464); Caballero crushes the Isla Grandean revolt.
1465 Y.O.H. - The Short War (1465-1466) erupts as Isla Grande again revolts from Caballero.
Death of Dawnflower ("Sew n'Sow") Apple (age 104) at Ponyville, protecting one of her grandsons and several other children from a creature which had come out of the Everfree. Lemon Quartz born to Goldie Pie (46) and Jasper Quartz (46).
1466 Y.O.H. - The Short War (1465-1466) ends with Caballeran suppression of the Isla Grandean rebels.
Birth of Opal ("Oh") Shiny.
1467 Y.O.H. - Birth of Baked ("Half-Baked") Apple (1467-) to Apple Brown Betty (23) and her lover Wanderlust Baker (21). Pie Chart (18) graduates Canterlot High School and begins attending Pranceton University in Neigh Jersey.
1469 Y.O.H. - Birth of Apple Cider to Apple Brown Betty (25) and her lover Wanderlust Baker (23). Birth of Sugar Pie to Goldie Pie (50) and Jasper Quartz (50).
1471 Y.O.H. - Birth of Mi Amore Cadenza in Hollow Shades. Wanderlust Baker (25) leaves Apple Brown Betty (27) for good. Pie Chart (22) earns a BA in Accounting from Pranceton.
1472 Y.O.H. - Birth of Cheerilee in Ponyville, Shining Armor in Canterlot. Igneous Rock and Cloudy Quartz Pie of South-Dunnich declare their love.
1473 Y.O.H. - Birth of Apple Fritter. Apple Brown Betty (29) and Apple Split are wed. Pie Chart (24) earns a MBA from Pranceston -- and then falls in love with Trail Dancer (22), and joins her caravan of itinerant Earth Ponies!
1474 Y.O.H. - Birth of Macintosh Apple to Melrose Apple (35) and Tangelo Orange (33) in Ponyville. Birth of Cosmic Red Carrot in Ponyville, Written Script in Canterlot. Birth of Candace ("Candy") Apple to Apple Brown Betty (30) and Apple Split.
1475 Y.O.H. - Lemon Quartz (10) and Oh Shiny (9) become friends.
1476 Y.O.H. - Birth of Maud Pie in South-Dunnich. Pie Fighter (17) saves Rough Neck (17)'s life, and they declare their love.
Birth of Cloud Kicker at the Kicker Compound near Canterlot.
1477 Y.O.H. - Pie Chart (28) leaves the itinerant Earth Ponies to work for a Manehattan drayage firm.
1478 Y.O.H. - Birth of Applejack, Landscape Carrot and Berryshine Punch in Ponyville.
1479 Y.O.H. - Birth of first son to Pie Chart (30) and Trail Dancer (28). Pie Fighter (20) and Rough Neck (also 20) are wed. Lemon Quartz (14) and Oh Shiny (13) fall in love.
1480 Y.O.H. - Birth of Fluttershy Wind in Cloudsdale, Carrot Top in Ponyville and Trixie Lulamoon in Hoofington. Birth of the eldest child and daughter to Pie Fighter (21) and Rough Neck (21). Birth of Cheese Sandwich to Hay Burger Sandwich and Mozarella Pockets of Bayroan, Neigh Jersey.
1481 Y.O.H. - The final Isla Grandean War of Independence (1481-1484) begins.
Birth of Claire Pie and Pinkie Pie in South Dunnich; Apple Bumpkin north of Ponyville. Pie Chart (32) coordinates the expansion of the Manehattan drayage firm into steamships.
Lemon Quartz (16) marries his pregnant fillyfriend Oh Shiny (15). Later, Oh Shiny suffers a stillbirth.
1482 Y.O.H. - Birth of Rainbow Dash in Cloudsdale; Rarity Belle and Straw Top in Ponyville; and Blossomforth. Birth of Caremella ("Bumpkin") Apple to Apple Brown Betty (38) and Apple Split. Birth of the second child (and only son) of Pie Fighter (23) and Rough Neck (23).
Birth of Carpet Burn, Jumbo Thumbo and Squirt.
1483 Y.O.H. - Birth of Twilight Sparkle in Canterlot; and Marble Pie in South-Dunnich. Birth of the eldest child and son of Lemon Quartz (18) and Oh Shiny (17).
1484 Y.O.H. - Destruction of the HMES Mane by a mysterious underwater explosion, assumed to be a fixed torpedo. Caballeran War (1484) won by Equestria; capture of Caballeran colonies. This also means the final victory of the Isla Granadans in their War of Independence (1481-1484)
Baking of the Great Cake of Oxford to celebrate the Equestrian victory. Celestia has a stained-glass window painted to commemorate this, but soon removes it because it keeps making her hungry. (Titanium Dragon, "Forever and Again and Again").
Birth of Tomato Sandwich to Hay Burger Sandwich and Mozarella Pockets of Bayroan, Neigh Jersey. Birth of Flora, first of the Peace Siblings. Birth of Cirrus and Nimbus Cloud, fraternal sister and brother twins. Birth of Bluejinx, son of Purple Prose.
Birth of Red ("Crimson") Gala Apple to Apple Brown Betty (40) and Apple Split.
1485 Y.O.H. - Birth of second child and son to Pie Chart (34) and Trail Dancer (32). Birth of the third child and second daughter to Pie Fighter (26) and Rough Neck (26).
1486 Y.O.H. - Birth of Magdalena ("Maggie") Apple to Apple Brown Betty (42) and Apple Split. Birth of Bananas, 2nd of the Peace Siblings.
1487 Y.O.H. - Birth of the second child and eldest daughter to Lemon Quartz (22) and Oh Shiny (21).
1488 Y.O.H. - Birth of the fourth child and third daughter to Pie Fighter (29) and Rough Neck (29). Birth of Ash Tree, 3rd of the Peace Siblings.
1489 Y.O.H. - Birth of Snips Fields; and Snails Carrot in Ponyville. Pie Chart (40) goes on a challenging financial mission to Isla Grande. Princess Cadance (18) meets Shining Armor (17) at Canterlot High School. Death of Black ("Blackie") Smith Apple of Ponyville, husband of Granny Smith and grandfather of the Sweet Apple Siblings, at age 97 of cancer.
1490 Y.O.H. - Hatching of Spike. Birth of Apple Bloom, Twist, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon in Ponyville. The first Sonic Rainboom. Twilight Sparkle (7), Rarity Belle (8), Rainbow Dash (8), Fluttershy Wind (10), Applejack (12) and Pinkie Pie (9) all get their Cutie Marks. Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie come to Ponyville. Cloud Kicker (14) tries to seduce Fluttershy Wind (10), but Rainbow Dash (8) fights Cloud to a standstill in a fierce hoof-to-hoof battle, driving off Cloud. This deprives Winning of feeding upon Fluttershy's Kindness.
Birth of third child and son to Pie Chart (41) and Trail Dancer (39). Birth of Olive, 4th of the Peace Siblings.
1491 Y.O.H. - Birth of Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Bulk Featherweight in Ponyville.
1492 Y.O.H. - Birth of Pina Colada Punch, in Ponyville. Ill Wind tries to rape Fluttershy Wind (12) and she defeats him in her first ever use of her Stare, in Cloudsdale. Birth of Valen Orange to Mosely Orange, in Manehattan. Birth of the third child, a son, to Lemon Quartz (27) and Oh Shiny (26). Birth of Ash Tree, 3rd of the Peace Siblings.
1493 Y.O.H. - Birth of Berry Pinch in Ponyville. Shadow Drake attacks South Dunnich, aiming to kill a visiting Pinkie Pie. Jasper Quartz (74), Pie Fighter (34) and Pie Fight's only son (11) are all slain in the fight; Igneous Rock is wounded; Maud Pie slays the attacking Dragon. Pinkie resolves to avoid her old home town, lest she draw death down upon more of her family.
1494 Y.O.H. - Fluttershy Wind (14) flies to Menhir Hill outside Hive Chrysalis, discovers that she was sired by a Changeling, escapes with her life and psychic freedom (Fluttershy Is Free). At the Fillydelphia Fashion Institute, Rarity Belle (12) meets, befriended by Rush Rocks.
Birth of Alula Kicker in Cloudsdale, Dinky Doo. DItzy Doo and Cloud Kicker come to Ponyville. Cloud and Winning attack Pinkie, who aided by her Sire the Paradise Entity, defeats them. Winning is almost destroyed, Cloud is not reformed.
Birth of Sweetie ("Sweet Tooth") Apple to Apple Brown Betty (50) and Apple Split. Birth of Alfalfa Peace, 5th of the Peace Siblings.
Sugar Pie (25) moves from South-Dunnich to Nickerlite.
1495 Y.O.H. - In Fillydelphia, Rush Rocks seduces and deflowers Rarity Belle (13). She becomes pregnant. Rush offers her the money for an abortion. Rarity angrily refuses the money and breaks off her affair with him.
1496 Y.O.H. - In Fillydelphia and under severe stress, Rarity has a miscarriage. She chooses revenge over suicide, and begins the destruction of Rush Rocks. In Ponyville, "Nosey" meets, seduces, deflowers and abandons Fluttershy Wind. Fluttershy suffers a nervous breakdown and becomes a hermit.
Birth of fourth child and son to Pie Chart (45) and Trail Dancer (43).
1497 Y.O.H. - White-Beard the Grey discorporates, leaving his bereaved former apprentice, Trixie Lulamoon, to begin her journeys. Birth of Amber Waves, 6th of the Peace Siblings.
1498 Y.O.H. - Birth of fifth child and first daughter to Pie Chart (47) and Trail Dancer (45).
1499 Y.O.H. - Trixie meets and loves Piercing Gaze. Frightened by her own actions and emotions, Trixie flees Baltimare.
1500 Y.O.H. - The Return of Luna, but also Shadowfall over the world. In Taura this results in the start of the Great War between the Griffon Empire and most of the other Tauran states. Griffon Empire wins victories against Western Taurans and Ursids, but cannot defeat either foe. Twilight Sparkle leads Celestia's Champions to defeat Nightmare Moon and liberate Luna from the Night Shadow. Trixie Lulamoon defeats the Nightstallion of Manehattan and his Shadow Coven. Piercing Gaze prevents a riot from erupting in Baltimare, saving his Hippodrome.
Birth of Willow, 7th of the Peace Siblings.
1501 Y.O.H. - The Day of Discord disrupts Equestria. The epic Battle of the Straits between Western Taurans and Wolfen Empire ends in Wolfen victory.
1502 Y.O.H. - Massive fighting all over Taura. Ursid Empire begins collapsing. Birth of Pumpkin Cake and Pound Cake, twins, in Ponyville.
1503 Y.O.H. - Chrysalis launches war against Equestria. Return of the Crystal Empire. Discord paroled. Ursid Empire collapses into open civil war. Princess Twilight travels to the Humanoid verse to defeat Sunset Shimmer.
Birth of the eldest daughter and child to Ginny Fizz (50) and Rough Neck (44). Birth of Kernel Grin, 8th of the Peace Siblings.
1504 Y.O.H. - Plunder Vines attack Equestria. Great Tauran War ends in truce of mutual exhaustion. Eastern Taura devastated. Tirek attacks Equestria. Shadow-inspired conspiracies proliferate around the world.
1505 Y.O.H. - Princess Twilight returns to the Humanoid verse to defeat the Dazzlings.
1507 Y.O.H. - Pinkie Pie weds Cheese Sandwich.
1508 Y.O.H. - Ill Wind, aka "Doctor Atmosphere," commences construction of the Pegasus Device for Windane's "New Pegasus Mandate". Queen Chrysalis attacks the Evergloom Hive at the same time that the Elements intervene; Landscape Carrot and the survivors of Hive Evergloom escape to Equestria. Applejack rescues and marries Landscape Carrot.
Birth of Pizza Pie and Fudge Fondue, fraternal twins, possible 1st and 2nd of the children of Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich.
1509 Y.O.H. - The New Pegasus Mandate seizes the ancient abandoned cloud castle of Derecho, installing modern engines on it and hiding it above the Northern Wastes.
1512 Y.O.H. - Windvane's Rebellion: attack of the New Pegasus Mandate against the Crystal Empire defeated, Windvane slain, and Doctor Atmosphere escapes in the damaged cloud castle of Derecho, fleeing across the Arctic skies.
1513 Y.O.H. - Start of the Great Changeling War (1513-1515). The High Queen, Nightmare Hunger, attacks Equestria, obtaining tactical surprise and driving to the foot of Mount Avalon. Sack of Ponyville and other places, siege of many and capture of some Gulf River cities. Loss of some other southern cities including Appleloosa and Dodge Junctions.
Birth of Rocky Road, possible 3rd child of Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich. Birth of Bell Pepper, possible daughter of Tomato Sandwich.
1514 Y.O.H. - Equestrian counterattack with new weapons of war including tanks, jet fighters and atomic bombs drives the Changelings back on the Wastelands. Equestrian amphibious landings relieve the sieges of the Gulf River cities, and Equestrian forces in the north and south squeeze the Changeling Swarms between them.
1515 Y.O.H. - Equestrian forces reduce High Queen Hunger's remaining Hives, finally cornering her at Hive Hunger-Prime. Fall of the High Queen Hunger, fall of Hive Hunger-Prime. End of the Great Changeling War (1513-1515).
1520 Y.O.H. - Birth of Berry Blast, possible 4th child of Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich.
1522 Y.O.H. - Birth of Cheescake Chase, possible 5th child of Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich.
1524 Y.O.H. - The Last Battle is fought between the Earth Defense Force and the Night Shadows in cislunar space. Celestia's Sacrifice restores the Solar System to its normal heliocentric mode, closes all the gates between the Solar System and the Shadow System, and destroys the Night Shadow System in the Shadowverse. Equestrians begin colonization of the Solar System. Princess Luna becomes the Monarch of Equestria.
1548 Y.O.H. - The Twelfth Equestriad is celebrated since the Return of Luna.
Around this time are born Starlight and her friends Sweetheart, Melody Bright Eyes, , who are sadly destined to remake the world.
Around this time are born Starlight and her friends Sweetheart, Melody, Bright Eyes, Patch, Clover, Bon Bon, who are sadly destined to remake the world.
JRR Tolkien would have been best buddies with you. :-)
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D'oh! I started that entry and didn't finish typing the line!!! Thank you for spotting that ...
I don't care much for the idea that 'perfect order' means turning everything to stone. But meh, I take it as a last desperate attempt to take Discord with them.
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They actually didn't think that's what would happen. They were hoping for a quicker and more directional effect, but the Lawstone wasn't really meant as a weapon. Discord realized what was happening and teleported away, and the effect consumed everypony who had remained in Lith.
Life exists on the dynamic edge between Chaos and Law. Absolute Lawfulness would basically be crystallization. Lith was already close to as Lawful as was equinely possible. Though they made some nice pastries, according to the Sisters, who gave Spike a baked-goods centric overview of some lost civilizations.
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I syncretized more than a few canons here, including M*A*S*H and Get Smart (imagine Ponified versions of both).
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No comment. Since I've done the same here and there with some stuff of my own.
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Unless they're all glorified corpses, I can't imagine Luna and Celly just leaving them that way.
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I'm not sure they know how to reverse the effect. The Lawstone is quite powerful, and their own knowledge and power are limited in their Avatar forms.
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Now that have Cadence, Twilight, and Discord to help.
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Oh ... an added bonus. Lith seems to be the ruined city in the jungle that Derpy and Carrot Top are exploring at the start of their Epic. But Lith is in the south of Equestria, which makes it likely that parts of Lith (it was a huge place, more a network of Indus Valley Civilization conurbations than what we think of a a "city," which is why it's of the same magnitude as "the Crystal Empire" which in its heyday spread all over northern and northeastern North Amareica) spread into the Evergloom of Flowery Province (the extreme southeast of Equestria, southeast of the Badlands themselves).
Why the Evergloom? Because there's one obvious thing for Carrot Top to be searching for in the Evergloom, with Derpy accompanying her to protect her friend. Namely, Landscape, her big brother, who disappeared in there in YOH 1498, two years before Luna's return. Why is she looking without Applejack, the other party who is really interested in what happened to Landscape Carrot? Because Carrot Top blames Applejack for his loss, and very much holds this against her prospective sister-in-law (why no, this isn't fair).
But how do we get from Lith to someplace where the Windigo Queen might have been imprisoned? Maybe that underground river isn't entirely natural. Maybe it's some sort of in-between place like Moorcock's Sea of Fate?
Incidentally, the Windigo Queen and her four principal minions are obviously sapient and free-willed Windigoes. Which means that they are ... perhaps under the influence of the Night Shadows ... evolving toward becoming entities like the Night Shadows themselves. Because the Night Shadows were the Windigoes of their Multiverse, who escaped from Entropy's control uncounted aeons in the past of that world.
Make me think ...
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That's a serious compliment. Thank you!
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That's true. And there might be a story in that. There would be a certain symmetry in bringing back the old South-Realm ... and it would strengthen Equestria.
the Gummi Bears
The Gummi Bears
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Yep, and my homage to one of the series which helped bring American animation out of the Children's Ghetto. Oh, what, you never noticed how dark that show was? The Gummis of Gummi Glen were one of the last survivals in that land of an obviously-dying race, who had fallen far from their greatness. Zummi even says it explicitly in one episode: "We've forgotten so much." And it was clearly the "humans" (in my world, Proto-Eldren and hence actually hominoids) who had driven them near to extinction.
There were also hints in the series that the Great Gummis weren't quite as nice as the Gummis of Gummi Glen, too. That they were more than a bit decadent.
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I'm not doubting the show, I just wasn't expecting them to show up here. Presumably the great empires of the Dizzy Knee and the Haz'b'ro came to some sort of agreement.
This post, with its timeline going back 10s of millions of years, reminds me that an a creationists started working in my work-place. Generally, I do not try to reason ponies out of believes they never reasoned themselves into believing, but he evangelizes. I have to debunk his claims from memory. I keep pointing him to TalkOrigins.Org.
On the religious side, he cannot believe that I do not believe in gods. I have to explain over-and-over-again that I cannot accept his claims for a god without evidence.I point out that it makes just as much sense to believe in the Invisible Pink Unicorn as his god given that neither claim has supporting evidence.
I do not mind philosophizing, but I keep reminding him that work is a not a good place for evangelizing. Indeed, this behavior could get him fired. I shall not complain because I like philosophical discourse, but others of different religions than his religion may not take so kindly to his evangelical activities in the work-place.
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I also think there should be a Ponified Jem and the Holograms during that Age of Wonders, but I haven't made them up yet. No Transformers, though, as that would impair continuity too much. Even though, canonically, the Human versions of G. I. Joe, Jem and Transformers all took place in the same world.
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LOL!!!
Ironically, this is a fanon full of divine and semi-divine beings, with multiple acts of deliberate genetic engineering in the background of all the races, including the (sadly-exterminated around 110 KYA) Humans of this timeline. As for the Ponies, it's been a free-for-all, with everyone including Celestia, Discord, the Serpent Folk, the G'marr and the Eldren getting into the act, more than once.
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But yeah, I like deep backgrounds with layers of civilizations and races rising and falling. I think you can see the clear Lovecraftian influences here -- H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness was one of the stories that got me into science fiction in the first place. I even have a couple of Elder Things (one of them, a very good friend of Wind Whistler's) show up in Divine Jealousy and the Voice of Reason. I have a soft spot for the Elder Things. Radiates, star-spawn, but by God they are characters!
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Ancient godlike civilizations would blow his mind.
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Lovecraft, remember, was an atheist from a devout background, and an amateur scientist who had fully-absorbed the implications of Deep Time and the evolutionary timescale.
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I meant the creationist trying to convert me to his religion at work. He believes that the whole universe is just for humans —— ¡his god is too small for an universe this big! If we discover an alien civilization, it would severely contravene much of his theology. Luckily for him, we probably will not discover extraterrestrial civilizations anytime soon:
Because the probability of extraterrestrial civilizations is non0 and the universe is large, they almost certainly exist, but because so much has to go right for an extraterrestrial civilization to arise and the universe is such a low density, the nearest such civilization is probably very far way.
I know that Lovecraft was an atheist and understood deep time. This allowed him to write about encounters with civilizations billions of years old, with individuals millions of years old with IQs in the millions. We cannot understand the motives of such beings. If such beings want to do something, which has negative consequences for us, we are powerless to stop them. If they would tell us what they intend to do next, we could at least try to get out of their way, but they do not even bother trying to communicate with such insignificant creatures.
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Though, of course, the Bible doesn't actually say that the whole Universe is just for humans. This is because the Mesopotamian and Egyptian priests from which the Hebrews derived their cosmology didn't realize that even that the Earth was a spherical object, let alone that some of the lights in the sky might be other Earths, or other Suns with Earths of their own around them.
I've noticed that a lot of Christian Fundamentalists try to deny the possibility of extraterrestrial civilizations. Why, I'm not certain ... it seem very much to me like simple jealousy, on a species scale ... "He's our God! He made all this for us! No one else!" You're right -- that particular belief could very easily be exploded by contact with sapient aliens.
The problem is complex because we wouldn't be sure of the existence of an alien civilization across interstellar distances unless it was transmitting pretty heavily in bands we are good at detecting. It's been argued that Earth-based receivers couldn't easily pick up the Earth's own radio signature beyond a light-year, but of course there's no reason to assume that we're forever limited to Earth-based receivers, and we could pick up our own radio signature well beyond a light-year if we focused radio-telescopes on the star ... as some future SETI might well do.
But up until around 1900 we weren't transmitting in the radio spectrum, and up until around 1950 not all that heavily. And communication seems to be moving from broadcast to pinpoint transmission ... by 2100 we might be using cable for ground-to-ground and laser/maser beams for space-crossing signals. Past 2250 or so, we might be using something entirely outside the electromagnetic spectrum -- who knows what? It might be FTL que-bits (quantum entangled bits), PKE telepathy, or something even stranger. (How well would Roger Bacon, or even Benjamin Franklin, have understood radio transmission?).
So there may be a roughly 200-year window, or (if we assume Humans Are Special, 2000 or 20KY window) in which a species generates signals we can detect, followed by silence. Or something stranger. How do we know that some of the more mysterious astronomical phenomena we see across interstellar, or even intergalactic distances, aren't the megascale engineering projects of Type I to III Kardashev-scale civilizations? How well would sapient ants living in Central Park grasp the true nature of New York City?
Ironically, given the Punyverse of the Creatonists, a Kardashev Type III Civilization's individuals might be, both in terms of intellect and raw power, each the equivalent of the Old Testament God!
As is, of course, Cosmic Celestia, Luna or Discord. Though their Incarnate Avatars are only equivalent to Greek Classical Deities, at most.
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho?
2774415 From debates on the forums at rhjunior.com (RealityCheck's homepage), the opinion is less that extraterrestrial life isn't possible, but that it isn't necessary. It also seems to be a reaction to the "Insignificant Little Blue Planet" trope (As used by Lovecraft, that poor, wretched soul), in that space aliens are too often not only a defiance of Human Exceptionalism, but a way to make humanity worthless. Also, God was calculated to be a Type X (Total mass-energy of the universe, ex nihilo, over 1 Planck interval).
Incidentally, The Megan arrives in 6000 B.P.(Before Present?).
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Yes ... I was inspired to this by the legend of Joshua's conquest of Jericho. I figure that to the Canaanites he would have been a Tirek-like figure.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "necessary." Given the size and age of the Universe, it would be surprising if Earth were the only planet inhabited by sapients; Earth itself seems to have more than one sapient race (though only one advanced-technological one). Mere life is probably quite common in the Universe (due to Arrhenian diffusion if nothing else) and one would imagine that some percentage of inhabited planets develop sapients of some sort.
Unlike Lovecraft, I like to have Humans (and Human-like races, in terms of the capacity for love and friendship, such as the Ponies) be Special. Though we are, at present, pretty insignificant on the scale of the Universe.
At present.
2774601 It's more that the potential existence of extraterrestrial life doesn't affect us all that much until the potential is realized. You've got settings where a Mary Suetopia race of aliens contacts humanity and causes religion to implode, and you've got settings where sapient life is so ridiculously commonplace that creationism is accepted as fact, but until we actually meet anything in Real Life it's rather pointless (and counterproductive) to build an ideology around speculation(What we have is speculation based on ideology).
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I think that if we speculate about it in advance, we may be able to reduce the (perhaps highly-destructive) impact of First Contact. Maybe just a little.
2774668 I didn't mention that in my post, but yes. Speculation is not a *bad* thing, but we should avoid building an ideology around any particular guess.
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I know what you mean about Mary Suetopian aliens, though. It is certainly possible that friendly high-tech aliens might give us the solutions to many problems that baffle us, but it is also true that malicious ones might destroy us as the Spanish did the Mesoamericans, or uncaring ones wreck our culture by accident, as the American and European whalers did the Polynesians.